Jamaica day 13! (Part 2)
Our next stop was the Appleton Rum Factory. Got a great tour guide, and a nice tour around the property. The whole tour seem to be a way to get people drunk so they will buy lots of rum afterwards, haha. It begins with rum punch, as much as you can drink before the tour starts. Then a walk around how everything works, the containers etc etc etc. Quite interesting! Afterwards there's more drinking. About 10 bottles are put up on a table and the guide leaves you with a bunch of little glasses and tells you to make sure to try everything. And it was fun, and yum, and all that. We enjoyed our time at the factory and yes, we got some rum before we left.
The last stop was the "Blue Hole" - When I was here the last time this place had this little blue hole, a hole in the ground with rock walls and clear blue water at the bottom. There were about three people there, swimming. Some other people building a little wooden house and that was it. A walk through the forrest got us to a plantation of well, I'm sure you can all figure that out. Now, 4,5 years later, there were two huge empty hotel buildings (one orange, one blue), a swimming pool, a volleyball court and two bars. The hole in the ground was guarded by "life guards" and it cost 10 dollars to jump in. What a joke. Obviously we didn't stay long. And didn't go for a dip. When we later told a taxi driver about it he laughed his ass off. "Ten dollars to jump in a hole? HA HA HA!" - the whole thing felt quite sad, although its interesting how much can happen in a few years.
Since we didn't stick around the blue hole we got home in time for this weeks steel drum band at Canoe. And since this time there was no rain and no Bob Marley Bash the place wasn't as crowded, and we could sit outside on the beach. The band were also placed outside - it was just a gorgeous setting. Im so glad we went there instead of paying ten dollars to jump in a hole.
Our next stop was the Appleton Rum Factory. Got a great tour guide, and a nice tour around the property. The whole tour seem to be a way to get people drunk so they will buy lots of rum afterwards, haha. It begins with rum punch, as much as you can drink before the tour starts. Then a walk around how everything works, the containers etc etc etc. Quite interesting! Afterwards there's more drinking. About 10 bottles are put up on a table and the guide leaves you with a bunch of little glasses and tells you to make sure to try everything. And it was fun, and yum, and all that. We enjoyed our time at the factory and yes, we got some rum before we left.
The last stop was the "Blue Hole" - When I was here the last time this place had this little blue hole, a hole in the ground with rock walls and clear blue water at the bottom. There were about three people there, swimming. Some other people building a little wooden house and that was it. A walk through the forrest got us to a plantation of well, I'm sure you can all figure that out. Now, 4,5 years later, there were two huge empty hotel buildings (one orange, one blue), a swimming pool, a volleyball court and two bars. The hole in the ground was guarded by "life guards" and it cost 10 dollars to jump in. What a joke. Obviously we didn't stay long. And didn't go for a dip. When we later told a taxi driver about it he laughed his ass off. "Ten dollars to jump in a hole? HA HA HA!" - the whole thing felt quite sad, although its interesting how much can happen in a few years.
Since we didn't stick around the blue hole we got home in time for this weeks steel drum band at Canoe. And since this time there was no rain and no Bob Marley Bash the place wasn't as crowded, and we could sit outside on the beach. The band were also placed outside - it was just a gorgeous setting. Im so glad we went there instead of paying ten dollars to jump in a hole.
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